Special Breakthrough Prize in fundamental physics awarded to Steven Weinberg – China.org.cn

SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 10 (Xinhua) — The Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics was awarded to Steven Weinberg, a professor at the University of Texas at Austin.
The selection committee on Thursday commended Weinberg’s “continuous leadership in fundamental physics, with broad impact across particle physics, gravity and cosmology, and for communicating science to a wider audience.” Weinberg was awarded a prize of three-million-dollars.
“Steven Weinberg has developed many of the key theoretica…

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